Track-scraper.



A. A. DE LOOOH.

TRACK SURAPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY17,1909.

950,873. Patented Feb.22, 1910.

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ALONZO A. DE LOOCI-I. OF BRIDGEPORT. ALABAMA.

TRACK-SCRAPER.

Application filed May 17, 1909.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, are) no A. Di: Loocn, a citizen of the United States, residing at la'idgeport. in the county of Jackson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Track- Scrapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to track scrapers, especially to those scrapers used in connection with saw mill carriages, and has for its object to produce a simpler and more ellicient scraper than those heretofore used, and at the same time, one that can be supplied at a lower cost.

To these ends the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals refer to like parts in all the vicwss-lfigure 1, is a perspective view of my improved track scraper; Fig. 2, a side elevational view of the same: Fig. 3, a sectional detail view taken on the line Il----Z" of Fig. 2: and Fig. 4:, an enlarged deta l view of one of the curved slots in the scraper body.

1 indicates any suitable track; 2 a wheel; and 3 a carriage or other part supptn'ted by said wheel. As is well known in saw mill marriages. the track often gets more or le s covered with saw dust or other n'laterial, and the wheel in running over the same causes the carriage to rise and tlna'efore to more the log or other stock being sawed relatively to the cutting tool. To prevent: this uinlesirable movement. T provide a guard 1 of horseshoe form, which is preferably flanged as at. 5 to give it rigidity, and which also has the ears or lugs t3. 'lhese ears are two in number, and each is preferably provided with a straight or slightly curved slot 7. preferably struck from tllu other slot as a center, as indicated in dotted lines Fig. Through each of these slots loosely passes a bolt 3 provided with a washer i), which bolt serves to securely hold the scraper to the carriage 13.

The lower ends 10 of the scraper are pro vided with a flat face 11, which contacts Specification of Le ers Patent.

Patented Feb.

SCXiEIl No. 496.627.

with the track, amt an inclined face which may be either a single face 12, or there may be two inclined faces .12 and 13, oppositely inclined and meeting in the edge 14. The ends 10 are located at equal distances on each side of the track, and the flat faces 11 either rest directly on the track surface and scrape along the same, or else they are located slightly above it. In all cases the scraper is securely but loosely fixed by the bolts (3 to the carriage, and when saw dust or other material covers the track the inclined faces of the ends 10 throw the same. to one or both sides of the track as the case may be, as will be readily understood. After the scraper is once fixed it. often becomes necessary to delicately adjust the same to the track in order to get a more perfect operation of the parts; and when metal is to contact or nearly contact with metal, as in this case, it. often involves a nice problem to get such an adjustment as will remain permanent in operation. If the slots are st night. and the bolts (3 fit the same too closely, the flt'ljtlStlIiOllt of one end 10 will set up strains which will cause the parts to gradually work back to their former position, but if the slots are loose, or slightly curved, as disclosed, no such strains are encountered. Again, a relatively long bearing surface longitudinally of the track is desirable. in order that the tendency of the ends 10 being subjected to a pinching action and thereupon forced toward the wheel 2 may be avoided. This pinching action is largely avoided by the extending edges 1-1 which are located some distance from the in side surface 16, as bestshown in Fig. 3. The top surface 17 of the ears 6 afford a mmvenient place to receive blows from a hammer when it is desired to adjust the two ends '10 to their proper positions. This action is also avoided by locating the said edges 14 substinitially vertically under the bolts (3, so that the direction of any thrust strains will pass through said bolts. and thereby tend to lift the scraper.

The scraper being composed of an open frame, the wheel can be readily gotten at whenever desired. and it being of a simple and exceedingly strong design it can be cast. or drop forged in a most inexpensive manl lQl'.

\Vhat I claim is:-

1. A track scraper composed of an open sided horse shoe shaped frame having the securing and strengthening flange 5 provided with the lugs 6; and the ends 10 each provided with an inclined surface, substantially as described.

2. A track scraper composed of an open sided horse shoe shaped frame having the securing and strengthening flange 5 provided with the lugs 6 having the surfaces 17 adapted to receive blows for adjusting the parts and the slots 7; said scraper also provided with the ends 19 having the flat surfaces 11 and the oppositely inclined surfaces 12 and 13 meeting in the edge 14:, the extreme end of which is located substantially under said slots, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

ALONZO A. DE LOOCH.

lVitnesses i C. P. CAMPBELL, FRED ROBINSON.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 950,373

patentee in Letters Track- Aflidavit having been filed showing that the name of the Patent No. 950,373, granted February 22, 1910, for an improvement in Scrapers, should have been written and printed Alonzo A. De Loach instead of Alonzo A. De Looch, it is hereby certified that the proper correction has been made in the tiles and records pertaining to the case in the Patent Ofiiee, and should be read in the said Letters Patent that the same may conform thereto.

Signed and sealed this 8th day of March, A. D., 1910.

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